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The American Federation of Government Employees has joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in calling on Congress to approve a VA request to reprogram funds to allow it to continue to provide direct patient care.
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Question: "I was recently divorced, and my Marital Settlement Agreement dictates that my FERS annuity will provide 50 percent of the marital portion of the employee’s self-only, unreduced monthly annuity determined as of the employee’s date of retirement. It also provides for a former spouse survivor annuity after my death. However, I am now being told that, should my former spouse die, her portion of this annuity will continue and become the property of her estate. Is this the default course of action if the MSA does not state otherwise?"

Revelations that a Secret Service agent had flirted with and sent indecent text messages to a woman he met at a speaking engagement for First Lady Michelle Obama, to whose security detail he was assigned, has provided an important reminder to federal employees: Flirting in the federal workplace can be fatal career-wise.

The announcement in June of the hacking of OPM files containing personal information of 4 million past and present employees should be another reminder of the identity theft threat facing employees, including tax identity theft. This week’s column discusses what employees should do if they are a victim of tax identity theft, and what they should do to prevent it.